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TL;DR; I know, but it's still bad for cubes. I'm aware it's happened in the past, I even mentioned Gargadon as an example. In fact, I notice it right away every time I include a card like that in my cube. In the first draft it shows up someone asks "what is investigate again?" One or two cards...

Changeling on Orvar, the All-Form and The Bears of Littjara as well. Snow mana on Ascendant Spirit. Treasure on Goldspan Dragon, Magda, Brazen Outlaw, Forging the Tyrite Sword. Boast on Dragonkin Berserker.

I really dislike this trend of not printing reminder text on non-evergreen abilities. These cards will be much more annoying to include in 5-10 years, and this makes the game a lot less accessible by a thousand cuts. I know a few cards have omitted reminder text in the past (like Greater...

If you leave each of the two copies flipped to a different size during the draft, it's still singleton :D

It's a really convoluted way of saying "Enchanted creature can't attack" almost all of the time. I guess if you want to build a "cryptic cube" it would be good, and it's not too bad in red control, but doesn't seem to be interesting enough to be worth a slot or the cognitive load to understand it.

I think this is deceptively powerful. It's the sort of card everyone tries to shortcut into "this is just x with upside" but all the small bits add up and for a mere 3 mana you get a bird, two life, a peek and a wish. It's a lot of value for 3 mana.

I bet if you foretell this in control and don't cast it, the opponent will spend the whole game slow-rolling threats assuming you have a Wrath. I'm intrigued, I don't feel like this card's very good (probably not playable in my cube), but it sure is hard to evaluate properly.

I don't think they are insanely good, and I think Axgard Armory Bretagard Stronghold is significantly better than all others. Note the two you pointed out as the best effectively cost 7 mana. Standard (not sure why I'm talked about it, but I already ranked): [Standard bannable] > Bretagard...

I wouldn't read much into the choice of colors, cube cobra bots skew away from WR in all cubes. What led me to Boros was the card quality of the 4-5 drops combined with abundance of red removal, which makes it easy for a deck to get to 4-5 mana without pressure. Theoretically :)

Drafted this: Ones 1 Thraben Inspector 1 Student of Warfare 1 Harm's Way 1 Firebolt 1 Galvanic Blast 1 Chromatic Star Twos 1 Perilous Myr 1 Burning-Fist Minotaur 1 Ancestral Blade 1 Dismissive Pyromancer 1 Cut // Ribbons Threes 1 Wizard's Lightning 1 Collective Defiance 1 Heirloom Blade...

I love how phase III text starts with "Los Angeles", even with the correct casing simply because Magic puts creature types in upper case for some reason. Yeah, that might be good. Not excited to play worse Leonin Scimitar, but in the right blue deck that's counterspell mana. Even without...

Update 5.0.7 An overall change is increasing the core module's size by 6. This dilutes everything a little bit, but I think even in the core I want a bit more variance than there currently is. Shocklands instead of Temples Writing Branchloft Pathway and Untapped Duals made me realize I want...

Update 5.0.6 In: Swords to Plowshares Reanimate Lightning Bolt Out: Devouring Light Dread Return Lightning Strike This is kind of a simple change actually. I've noticed blue has many cards that pull towards it, but other colors don't. So I'm adding some anchors, some clear first...

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In a generic cube deck or in a reanimator deck? 0-1 in the first and 4-6 in the second, I'd say.

Thanks for the fun draft! You focus on the issues, but I wanted to highlight the things that made it a great draft to me. The activated abilities, kicker, escalate, and mana sinks in general made me feel like I always had options. Victories feel more like they are due to you skill when you had...

Yeah, mostly Mystic Snake. A very similar option I run because Elf Wizard: Frilled Mystic A finisher for the deck: Simic Sky Swallower

Yeah, if draw-go gets to the point where it prefers scry 1 to having an extra land on the board, it's already close to winning.

It was kind of bad. 5 mana is a lot for a card that at most prevents your opponent from attacking with large creatures without evasion if they don't have much life. The 1 life every turn make a difference in cheap cards, but here you barely ever get to activate it. Serrated Arrows, Dead Weight...

Assuming you're talking about pivot archetypes, which are centered around a color but need pieces from other colors: That sounds like a build-around cube. Say, white had payoffs for enchantments but all colors had enchantments. You have a couple of build-around decks where you pick a payoff...